Vol. 24 in the Communication and Human Values series.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. The Rhetoric of Othering / Stephen Harold Riggins

2. Political Discourse and Racism: Describing Others in Western Parliaments / Teun A. van Dijk

3. Das Ausland and Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Discursive Construction of the Other / Ruth Wodak

4. Who Are They? The Rhetoric of Institutional Policies Toward the Indigenous Populations of Postrevolutionary Mexico / Teresa Carbo

5. Discourses of Exclusion: The Irish Press and the Travelling People / Jane Helleiner and Bohdan Szuchewycz

6. Racial Intimidation: Sociopolitical Implications of the Usage of Racist Slurs / Philomena Essed

7. The Historical Resilience of Primary Sterotypes: Core Images of the Muslim Other / Karim H. Karim

8. Benetton Culture: Marketing Difference to the New Global Consumer / Michael Hoechsmann

9. Afrocentricity and Inclusive Curriculum: Is There a Connection or a Contradiction? / George J. Sefa Dei

10. The Assimilation of the Other Within a Master Discourse / William E. Conklin

11. Subverting Poor Me: Negative Constructions of Identity in Poor and Working-Class Women's Autobiographies / Roxanne Rimstead

Name Index

Subject Index

About the Editor

About the Contributors

This new volume brings together articles that apply critical discourse analysis to texts and speech which contribute to the marginalization of minority groups. Studying both the fine detail of language use and the political values implicated by word choice, the contributors how "use versus them" division is played out in a wide array of cultural settings. Among the groups considered are immigrants in Western Europe, African Americans, African Canadians, Mexican Natives, Jews in Austria, and Muslims in Europe and North America. Examples of everyday speech through which prejudice is conveyed include advertising, parliamentary debate, travel literature, newspaper articles, the law, autobiography, and even classroom discourse. Collectively, the chapters make a strong and original case for the value of linguistic perspective in the study of prejudice and social inequity.

By providing an in-depth look at the ways in which discourse can marginalize others, The Language and Politics of Exclusion should prove useful to scholars and to students in communication, sociology, journalism, and linguistics." (Book Cover)